Alexander Zverev beats Dominic Thiem to win Madrid Masters title

Germany's Alexander Zverev celebrates winning the ATP Madrid Open final tennis match at the Caja Magica in Madrid on May 13, 2018. Pic/AFP

Alexander Zverev showed his clay-court class by blowing away Dominic Thiem to win the Madrid Masters on Sunday.

Zverev has long been marked out as a future star of the men's game and his 6-4, 6-4 victory over Thiem suggests the German can be a major threat at the French Open later this month.

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